Allium flavumL.

WFO wfo-0000756255 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Allium flavum, photographed by Michael Grundner
fig. a Michael Grundner, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 203423882
Allium flavum, photographed by Petr Kouba
fig. b Petr Kouba, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91399887
Allium flavum, photographed by Flora_DUMO
fig. c Flora_DUMO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176122086
Allium flavum, photographed by xulescu_g
fig. d xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 96099991
Allium flavum, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. e Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58708425
Allium flavum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. f Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125409248
Allium flavum, photographed by Michael Andresek
fig. g Michael Andresek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164517098
Allium flavum, photographed by Елена Патерикина
fig. h Елена Патерикина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152750174

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Allium flavum is native: Algeria, Morocco, East Aegean Is., Iran, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Sicilia, South European Russia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoEast Aegean Is.IranKazakhstanNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Allium flavum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 266 in flower of 314 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Allium flavum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 266 of 314 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 32 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Allium amphipulchellum Zahar.
  • Allium aristatum Candargy
  • Allium callistemon Webb ex Regel
  • Allium coloratum var. valdensium (Reut.) Jauzein & J.-M.Tison
  • Allium flavum f. bulbilliferum Priszter
  • Allium flavum subsp. adriaticum Degen
  • Allium flavum subsp. valdensium (Reut.) K.Richt.
  • Allium flavum var. adriaticum (Degen) Soó
  • Allium flavum var. ruthenicum Lange
  • Allium flavum var. sordideroseum Czern.
  • Allium flavum var. tauricum Besser ex Rchb.
  • Allium flavum var. webbii (Clementi) Nyman
  • Allium fontanesii J.Gay
  • Allium montanum Rchb.
  • Allium nitschmanni Willd. ex Ledeb.
  • Allium paczoskianum Tuzson
  • Allium pallens Rchb.
  • Allium paniculatum All.
  • Allium pseudopulchellum Omelczuk
  • Allium pulchellum var. pallens Nyman
  • Allium pulchellum var. valdensium (Reut.) Nyman
  • Allium ruthenicum Steud.
  • Allium sphaeropodum Klokov
  • Allium valdense Nyman

and 8 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.